One of my favorite big-think papers of recent years tries to explain humanity’s societal evolution, “The computational power of a human society: a new model of social evolution” by David H. Wolpert ...

As societies become complex systems, the consequences of change intertwine and are often unexpected. From nomadic life to agricultural, from industrial urbanization to post-industrial societies, each ...

A global study of 186 traditional societies found evidence supporting the theory that low-alcohol fermented beverages played a role in the evolution of political complexity, contributing to the ...

Comparative archaeology : a commitment to understanding variation / Robert D. Drennan ... [et al.] -- Approaches to comparative analysis in archaeology / Michael E. Smith and Peter Peregrine -- ...

Termites did not evolve complex societies by adding new genetic features. Instead, scientists found that they became more social by shedding genes tied to competition and independence. A shift to ...

Papers presented at a symposium held during the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Milwaukee, April 2003. From collapse to regeneration / Glenn M. Schwartz -- The demise and ...

Ettore received funding from the Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment and the Ecological Society of Australia. Anne Peters receives funding from the Australian Research Council Discovery Program. One ...

He was right. But Churchill never imagined a government that would add 10,000 year after year. That’s what we have in America. We have 160,000 pages of rules from the feds alone. States and localities ...

Seirian Sumner receives funding from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). She is an employee of University College London. Her book Endless Forms: Why We Should Love Wasps, is published by ...